‘The Woman in Black,’ one of the world’s most successful plays, is coming to Dubai for a two-week run as part of the Dubai Shopping Festival (DSF) celebrations.

The play, which is still running in London’s West End after a record breaking 20 years, will be staged in Dubai from January 28 to February 6, said its producers, Popular Productions Limited.

Based on Susan Hills bestselling original novel, this compelling drama is rightly respected internationally as one of the most effective plays ever to be written.

Over 3 million people have seen the show. It has been produced in over 40 different countries and has thrilled audiences the world over with its heart stopping story.

Stephen Mallatratt's adaptation for the stage remains entirely true to the book itself and uses much of Susan Hill's own descriptive writing and dialogue, while transforming the novel into a totally gripping piece of theatre.

Eel Marsh House stands tall, gaunt and isolated, surveying the endless flat saltmarshes beyond the Nine Lives Causeway, somewhere on England's bleak East Coast.

Here Mrs Alice Drablow lived - and died - alone. Young Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is ordered by his firm's senior partner to travel up from London to attend her funeral and then sort out all her papers.

His task is a lonely one, and at first Kipps is quite unaware of the tragic secrets which lie behind the house's shuttered windows.

He only has a terrible sense of unease. And then, he glimpses a young woman with a wasted face, dressed all in black, at the back of the church during Mrs Drablow's funeral, and later, in the graveyard to one side of Eel Marsh House.

Who is she? Why is she there? He asks questions, but the locals not only cannot or will not give him answers - they refuse to talk about the woman in black, or even to acknowledge her existence, at all.

So, Arthur Kipps has to wait until he sees her again, and she slowly reveals her identity to him - and her terrible purpose.

This fantastic new production features two accomplished West End actors in the roles of 'The Actor' and 'Arthur Kipps' in a haunting staging directed by John Payton.

Popular Productions boasts of some of the region's most successful productions in recent times including Stones In His Pockets, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), Educating Rita, Teechers and Disney’s High School Musical.-TradeArabia News Service